About Us

Mati Kochavi

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Mati Kochavi is Founder and CEO of AGT International, a global provider of advanced public safety and security solutions. Our world today is being rapidly shaped by globalization, mobile technology and the Internet. Although these developments are seeds for progress, they must be fully understood and appreciated in order to secure and manage in today’s uncertain and evolving environment. AGT International understands this reality, and our knowledge is embedded in our products and solutions. Established in 2007, with 2,500 employees, representing nearly 50 nations, AGT operates in 5 continents and manages work with $1 billion in annual revenue. AGT is widely considered one of the world’s fastest growing security and public safety companies. We partner with organizations, helping them predict, prepare for, prevent and manage their unique challenges and threats, allowing them to pursue the myriad possibilities and opportunities offered by a safe and secure future.

Marty Edelman

Chairman

Martin Edelman is AGT International’s Chairman. With more than 30 years’ experience in international real estate, corporate transactions and the hospitality industry, Mr. Edelman is currently of counsel to Paul Hastings LLP, where his focus has been large, complex transactions, including cross-border transactions. He has been involved in all stages of legal development of pioneering financial structures, including participating debt instruments, institutional joint ventures in real estate and joint ventures between U.S. financial sources and European real estate companies. He has also done extensive work in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the Middle East and Latin America. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences. Mr. Edelman is on the Board of Directors of Capital Trust, Avis Budget Group, Inc. and Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. He is on the advisory board at Columbia University’s Business School. Mr. Edelman is an advisor to Grove Real Estate Partners, The Related Companies and Fisher Brothers. He is on the boards of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and the Fisher House Foundation. Mr. Edelman graduated from Princeton University and Columbia Law School.

Robert Wenig

Chief Technology Officer

Robert Wenig is Chief Technology Officer at AGT International, where he oversees all scientific and technology issues affecting the company’s IP, including its proprietary IoT analytics and applications.

Before joining AGT, Mr. Wenig spent more than a decade as Founder, CTO and a member of the Board at Tealeaf, a customer experience management software company spun-off from SAP (where Mr. Wenig was a technical fellow) and sold to IBM in 2012.

Winner of two Smithsonian Awards for Innovation and holder of more than a dozen patents, Mr. Wenig was “doing big data” well before it was popular.

As a technical fellow at SAP in the 1990s, Mr. Wenig created the company’s self-service offerings (generating over 10 million users) and launched its annual TechEd Conference (now SAP d-code), which regularly attracts as many as 4,000 attendees from SAP’s ecosystem of consultants and software development partners.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Wenig was Director of Engineering and a technical fellow at Autodesk, and a senior engineer at Wang.

Mr. Wenig holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an Executive MBA from the University of San Francisco’s Masagung Graduate School of Management.

Anat S. Amir

Chief Marketing Officer

Anat Amir is Chief Marketing Officer at AGT International where she oversees product marketing and the AGT Creative Lab, keeping AGT at the forefront of IoT innovation.

Ms. Amir comes to AGT with more than 15 years of marketing, strategy and product marketing experience. Before joining the company, Ms. Amir was Head of Marketing for Android and Google Mobile, EMEA where she launched the first Android device (G1) in Europe and led efforts to make Android consumers’ first choice for mobile Internet access. She was also CMO, Google Africa where she developed Google’s marketing strategy from the ground up. Earlier, Ms. Amir held senior-level product and UI roles with digital communications leader O2/Telefónica.

Ms. Amir holds a BA in Economics and Business Administration from Hebrew University and an MBA from Ben Gurion University where she wrote her Master’s thesis on the topic of human computer interaction.

Wayne Hull

Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Partnerships

Wayne Hull is Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Partnerships at AGT International, and a member of the company’s executive management team. Wayne has had a major impact on AGT’s growth since joining the company in 2012. His prior roles at AGT have included Vice President of Sales, Middle East & Africa and Vice President, Partner Management. Notably, Wayne was responsible for bringing to market AGT’s joint IoT offering with partner Cisco Systems. He also sits on the boards of several companies within the AGT network of companies.

Wayne’s expertise includes systems integration, the application of analytics to open source intelligence and the development of integrated safe-smart and IoT solutions for cities and critical assets. Before joining AGT he spent 20 years directing sales, business development, CRM and P&L for industry leaders Cisco, IBM and Accenture. His leadership positions have included Director and General Manager for Cisco in the Middle East and Global Executive for IBM’s System Group in Southern Africa.

Wayne is the founder of a non-profit organization focused on education projects across Southern Africa, and a board member at Teach South Africa and the Young Presidents’ Organization Emirates Chapter.

Wayne earned a bachelor’s degree (with honors) in industrial relations from the University of Cape Town and holds numerous professional certificates, including one from the General Management Executive Program at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland

Tony Plesner

Chief Finance Officer

Tony Plesner is Chief Finance Officer (CFO) at AGT International, overseeing all finance and strategic business operations related to AGT’s global expansion. He served as EVP, Finance since joining the company in 2012. Mr. Plesner was previously CFO at IntraLinks, a global provider of content management and collaboration solutions, where he led the company through several transformative capital-raising events, including an LBO and subsequent IPO. He also oversaw upgrades to staff, systems, processes, controls and policies that facilitated fourfold revenue growth (to $200MM) and significantly stronger profits during his seven years with the company. Mr. Plesner’s experience includes COO and CFO positions at several global software and media companies, including key operating entities at Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), 24/7 Real Media, Medscape (now WebMD), thenewsmarket.com and Confer Software. Mr. Plesner received his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in Economics from Manchester University (UK).

Amir Pushinsky

Chief Portfolio Officer

Amir Pushinsky is Chief Portfolio Officer at AGT International. Mr. Pushinsky has over 20 years’ management and leadership experience across multiple industries, including technology and banking. His previous roles include Vice President of Marketing at Comverse, a publicly traded technology company. Mr. Pushinsky is also a Board member at several corporate and non-profit organizations.

Samer Ghanem

Chief Information Officer

Samer Ghanem is CIO of AGT International. Formerly the company’s Global VP of IT Systems, Mr. Ghanem is a seasoned technology executive with more than 15 years’ experience enhancing business operations through smart, efficient use of technology. His areas of expertise include global IT strategy and operations management, enterprise system architecture, design and integration, IT infrastructure and IT risk management. Before joining AGT, Mr. Ghanem was an entrepreneur and IT consultant at BMW Group, The New York Times, the United Nations and Applied Technologies International. He holds a Master’s In Technology Management from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Management from the University of Alexandria in Egypt.

Pieter-Christiaan van Oranje-Nassau

CEO & Country Head, AGT Netherlands

Pieter-Christiaan (PC) van Oranje-Nassau is Vice President, Business Development and Country Manager, AGT Netherlands at AGT International. His experience includes work at Equity Capital Markets in London, a joint venture between ABN AMRO and NM Rothschild. He is also Chairman of the Dutch Association of Security Managers (VBN), a Board member at the Dutch Red Cross and a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Directorate of Operations of the Royal Military and Border Police Staff in Holland. PC obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) from Utrecht University and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.

Aviva Arnon

Chief Human Resources Officer

Aviva Arnon is the Chief Human Resources Officer for AGT International. Prior to AGT, she was Director of Human Resources at Nice Systems, Inc. following a successful career as Chief Human Resource Officer and Managing Director at a number of other international companies. Ms. Arnon holds a BA in Psychology, an MA in Experimental Psychology and a PhD ABD in Business Management.

Gadi Lenz, PhD

Chief Scientist

Gadi Lenz is Chief Scientist at AGT International. Leveraging more than 20 years’ experience in the high-tech sector and expertise in the IoT, including sensors, data analytics, machine learning, video and C2 systems, Gadi oversees AGT’s largest and most complex IoT projects for its government and corporate customers.

Prior to his current role, Gadi spent 8 years at AGT helping to define the company’s technical strategy, and placing it on course to be a leader in the IoT space. Previously, Gadi spent several years working for Bell Labs, where he was a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) and conducted optics and other research in Bell’s Physical Sciences Labs.

Gadi holds 17 patents, has published nearly 100 scientific peer-reviewed papers and co-founded an optical communications company that was sold to a large publicly traded optical communications equipment firm. He holds a BSc, MSc and PhD (the latter from MIT) in Electrical Engineering.

Joachim Schaper, PhD

Vice President & Head, Research Organization

Joachim Schaper is Vice President & Head, Research Organization at AGT International. Having created the company’s global research organization in Darmstadt, Mr. Schaper leads collaboration between internal-external researchers and business organizations to find innovative solutions for the global safety and security marketplace. Mr. Schaper’s research interests include information management and extraction, user interface technologies and IT security. Before joining AGT International, Mr. Schaper was Vice President, Research, EMEA at SAP AG. He holds a Doctorate (PhD) in Computer Science from Universität Karlsruhe (TH).

Yehuda Herbst

General Counsel

Yehuda Herbst is General Counsel at AGT International. An international lawyer with strong cross-border transactional and corporate experience, Mr. Herbst’s expertise includes private equity-related transactions and complex investments as well as the negotiation of agreements across all aspects of commercial activity. He also has experience establishing domestic and foreign investment funds and other alternative investment structures. Mr. Herbst holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, an LL.B and an MBA.